St. Matthew Sterling Round Medal

This round St. Matthew Medal is 11/16 in. in diameter and comes with an 18 in. stainless steel chain and a deluxe gift box. St. Matthew is the patron of accountants, bankers, security forces and tax collectors.

This item carries a lifetime warranty. If the item should tarnish or break, please return to Aquinas and More Catholic Goods for repair or replacement. This warranty takes precedence over our standard return policy.

St. Matthew

Profile Son of Alphaeus, he lived at Capenaum on Lake Genesareth. He was a Roman tax collector, a position equated with collaboration with the enemy by those from whom he collected taxes. Jesus' contemporaries were surprised to see the Christ with a traitor, but Jesus explained that he had come "not to call the just, but sinners."

Matthew's Gospel is given pride of place in the canon of the New Testament, and was written to convince Jewish readers that their anticipated Messiah had come in the person of Jesus. He preached among the Jews for 15 years; his audiences may have included the Jewish enclave in Ethiopia, and places in the East.